Biomedical Imaging Facilities

Primarily, the IMCES understands its task to be to provide users with functional equipment on which measurement data can be collected according to good scientific practice. These include, in addition to the necessary equipment maintenance and the coordination of service work, also the project-related advice of the users, their instruction on the relevant equipment and also the assistance with common acquisition and evaluation processes. The use of the LMU is usually self-sufficient in nature, whereby users can independently book and use the corresponding devices via an online booking system. On the one hand, also the EMU offers this form of use. However, all work steps in the electron microscopy sample processing and analysis can also be booked as a full service, in which the work is carried out by the EMU staff. The extent of instrument/service usage is metered via the online booking system and charged automatically according to hourly rates. In addition to the routine operation as a service facility, the IMCES is integrated in several places in the student education to train local students in the use of modern imaging techniques and to show them the potential of these systems.